Word: strife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about ratification (and polls show a majority of the public in favor), the two amendments will not quell significant opposition. Republican Moderate Robert Griffin of Michigan, who has taken on the job of managing the opposition, denounced the treaties last week as "pregnant with the seeds of acrimony and strife ... fatally flawed and riddled with ambiguity." Senator John Stennis of Mississippi warned that the transfer would cost more than $1 billion. Reagan joined in with a nationwide TV address in which he claimed that the treaties might result in the loss "of our own freedom...
...time of trouble and lousy strife, You still have a darlint plan. You still can turn to a brighter life, A pint of plain is your only...
...Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example of the wobbly democratic process in action...
...white parents this meant sending their kids into dangerous, crime-ridden neighborhoods and inferior schools simply to please the state government far off in Albany. To principals and staff of the whiter schools, the plan meant a decline in academic excellence, an increase in disciplinary problems, and probable racial strife. The plan quietly died under the pressure from middle class whites and the state Governor, who is himself a white, middle class South Brooklyner. The busing never took place, but the plan remains etched on the collective memory of the Brooklyn middle class...
Atlantans rightly pride themselves on their good race relations. Blacks and whites worked together to head off serious racial strife in the 1960s. They avoided further confrontations in the 1970s by compromising on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Last week the city passed another milepost, for itself and the South, when Jesse Hill Jr., 51, a black insurance executive, became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, in effect becoming the titular head of the city's mostly white business establishment...